HELSINKI COMMISSION

Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission

     
     
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 20/4*

CONCERNING ANTIFOULING PAINTS CONTAINING ORGANOTIN COMPOUNDS

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     * This Recommendation supersedes HELCOM Recommendation 9/10

     
Adopted 23 March 1999
having regard to Article 13, Paragraph b)
of the Helsinki Convention 1974

THE COMMISSION,

RECALLING Article 5 of the Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area, 1992 (Helsinki Convention), in which the Contracting Parties undertake to prevent and eliminate pollution of the marine environment of the Baltic Sea Area caused by harmful substances from all sources, according to the provisions of the Convention and, to this end, implement the procedures and measures of Annex I of the 1992 Helsinki Convention,

RECALLING ALSO Annex I of the Helsinki Convention, according to which pesticides, such as fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, slimicides and chemicals used for the preservation of wood, timber, wood pulp, cellulose, paper, hides and textiles belong to the priority groups of harmful substances for the purposes of Article 5 of the Convention,